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B. LEVINE.

AUTOMATIC MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24. 1921.

1,377,208. Patented May 10, 1921.

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APPLICATION EILED JAN. 24, 1921.

1,377,208. Patented May 10,1921.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY To all whom it may concern:

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UNITED STATES,PATE E- BERNARD LEVINE; oE nEw break, it. Y., ASSIGNOR oEoNE-nALE To THE E. woLEF EsTA E;

AUTOMATIC MARKER. I

Application filed January 24,1921. "serial No. 439,403.

Be it known that, T, BERNARD LEVINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic,

Markers, of which the following is tion. 1

This invention relates to a, device that is suitable for uniformly stamping automatically a series of articles which areto be distributed one at a time by suitable distributing mechanism. The device is arranged to a specifibe attached to distributing mechanisms al-;

ready in use without requiring appreciable alteration or modification of existing'meche anisms of this sort, and it is; applicable 'to a great variety of uses. It is so designed that the moving or oscillating 'partsuof the old distributing mechanism will operate the device to stamp the articles with appropriate insignia. For the sake of clear explanation the invention will be particularly described inconnection with bookbinding machinery, and more particularly in connection with a distributer which distributes book-end pa- It is weliknown in the bookbinding art that book-end papers are usually a folded sheet to constitute four blank pages which are assembled on both sides of the signatures which constitute the entire pages of the book proper. in distributing these book-end papersit is desirable to have'auto-. matic machinery for doing this, and the present invention will be described in this connection and a small section of the distributing mechanism for the book-end papers will be shown somewhat diagrammatically.

Since thisxdistributing mechanism is well known in the bookbinding art, itis thought unnecessary todescribe the same in detail.

The invention will be understood from the descriptiontaken in connection with accompanying drawings, in which-.

' Figure 1 shows a side view of the device connected to an automatic distributer.

' Fig. 2 is asectionalplan view alongthe line 2f 2 of Fig. 1.

of the mechanism; V v I H 1: Fig. 6 shows a side viewpartlylbroken away of a modified, form of the device; I

idly attached thereto ,uprights 27. attached to the base 1.

Fig. 7 is an end view of the modification. In the drawings reference character 1 in dicates abase or plate, one end of which 2 is bent for convenience in attaching the device to mechanism with which it is associated. a At the other end of the plate 1 is at- I tached an ink pad 3 by means of a flexible springe that permits the pad to be shifted to different longitudinal positions. At the same end of the base 1 areupright posts or standards 5 and 6 connected across the up per endsof cross-pieces 5 and 6. These uprights 5 and 6 have longitudinal slots 7 and 8 therein. A shaft 9 is disposed to slide in the'slots 7 and 8. This shaft 9 has rigidly attached thereto the sleeve 10 which carries the upright 11 to which is adjustably attached the stamping device 12 by means of screws which pass through the elongated openings or slots 1%. The stamping device 12 carries upon its face the letters or insignia 15 with which the articles are to be marked. The end of the shaft 9 has rigion'16. t

the mutilated pini The pinion 16 is provided with a number :of teeth 17 which mesh with corresponding teeth 18 on the rack 19 that is attached;

alongside of and in close proximity to the .upright 6. The r ackQIQ is provided with smooth portions 20 and 21 near its upper and lower ends respectively, and the pinion 16 is provided'with stops 22 and 23'which come into contact with the smoothportions 20 and .Zlnear the extremities of travel of the shaft v9in the slots .7 and 8.

The shaft 9 is carried in theslotted end 24: of a bifurcated lever 25, which is pivoted on'an axis 26, mounted torevolve in the The short end 25 of the lever 25 is attached by .means'of alink 27f to the rod 28, which in turn is attached to the arm 29 that is rigidly fixed to, andtu'rns with, the oscillating shaft 30 of the distributing mechanismwhich it is not thought necessary to show in detail. Theoscillating shaft 30 of the distributing mechanism has rigidly attached thereto the gripping devices 31, which remove thee-rticles 32 one at a time after theyhave come into-contact with the'plate for a moment.

Theplate 33 is provided with a holeor openwith the plate 33 and before it is removed therefrom by the grippers 31. The angle iron 35 (Fig. 2) is fastened to the upright 6 for convenience in rigidly attaching the device to a suitable portion of the distributing mechanism (not shown).

The operation is as follows, as shown in Figs. 1 to 5:

The shaft of the distributing mechanism is oscillated in the manner well known in this art to remove the articles, for example, book-end papers, one at a time from behind the plate This oscillation of the shaft 30 in turn operates the lever 25 through the rod 28 and other connections, so that the shaft 9 is caused to move back and forth in the slots 7 and 8, thus causing the teeth 17 of the pinion 16 to mesh with the teeth 18 of the rack 19 to make the shaft 9 revolve through an arc of 180 between its uppermost and lowermost positions. The turning of the shaft 9 causes the stamping device 12 to assume the position at the upper end of travel so that it will project through the opening 34 of the plate 33 and stamp the article 32. At the other end of travel of the shaft 9 the stamping device will be turned through an arc of 180, thus bringing the face of the same into contact with the ink pad 3 while the grippers 31 are removing the article 32 that has been stamped and permitting the next successive one to come into position where it will likewise be stamped by the next oscillation of the mechanism.

It will be noticed that when the last one of the teeth 17 at either end of the row of teeth has ceased to mesh with the teeth. 18 of the rack 19, the steps 22 or 23 will at that moment come into contact with the smooth faces 20 or 21, thus preventing further revo lutions of the rack 16 and shaft 9 while the shaft 9 is moving near the extreme upper and lower positions of travel. In this way an appreciable distance is traveledby the shaft 9 at its extremities without any turning of the same, thus providing longitudinal movement of the stamping device 12 for appreciable distance at its extremities of travel, thereby causing the same to come perpendicularly into contact with the pad 3 and the article 32 respectively with the advantages'that are obvious, as the insignia are thereby prevented from being blurred by sliding contact. 7

By markingor stamping thearticles 32 all alike, when the same constitute the bookend papers, and distributing the same to the proper volumes in the usual way, the clerks who subsequently sew, trim, round-up, paste and apply the covers, are not apt to become confused or apply the wrong bookbinding materials. Besides, since the book-end paper is stamped on the outside and this outside is always glued to the inside of the book cover itself, the mark or stamp will not detract in any way from the final appearance of the book, but will serve its useful purpose during all the operations of the binding of the book.

In the device thus far described the ink pad 3 is held on the base 1 by means of spring 4, so that the same can be manually adjusted to difierent positions in order to bring fresh surfaces in positions to be reached by the stamping device 12. In the modification illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 is shown an inking device which is automatically kept freshly supplied with ink, and fresh surfaces of the same are automatically brought intoposition so as to be reached by the stamping device 12. In these figures the same reference characters are used to refer to the same parts already described.

In this modification the automatic inking device consists of a band or belt 40 of flexible material which may be coated or saturated with ink or the like. This belt 40 passes over rollers 41 and 42 anchored in journals 41" and 42 respectively. The band 40 is driven by the roller 42 and inked by-the roller 41, as will be described. A spring 43, one end of which is fastened to the base 1, has the other end interposed under the band 40 where the stamping device 12 comes into contact with said band so as to present a suitable yielding surface.

The roller 42 is rigidly mounted upon a shaft 43 which is driven by a toothed pinion 44. Journaled on the shaft 43 is a lever 45, the other end of which is connected by a rod 46 to the lever 25. The lever 45 carries a pawl 47 turned by the spring 48 so that one end of the same may ratchet over the teeth of the pinion 44.

The roller 41 clips into a cup 49 which is adapted to contain ink or similar material for wetting or saturating the belt 40.

The operation is as follows:

W hen the distributing mechanism operates the lever 25, the lever 45 is also oscillated, whereupon the pawl 47 turns the pinion 44 in one direction and ratchets over a few teeth as the lever 45 turns in the other direction, thus intermittently turning the pinion 44 short distances. The pinion 44 driving the shaft 43 also turns the roller 42, thereby causing the band 40 to travel, which band 40 traveling over the roller 41, causes different portions of the surface of the roller 41 to dip into the ink in the cup 49 and carry the same so as to supply ink to the band 40, with which band 40 the stamping device 15 comes into contact as the same passes over the end of the spring 43, thus eliminating the possibility of the stamping device coming into contact with dry portions of the band 40.

While the invention has been particularly described in connection with bookbinding mechanism, it is to be understood that it may be applied in otherplaces where suitable, and changes and modifications can be made in details without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a device of the class described, a shaft movable in slots, a stamp mounted on said shaft, a pinion carried by said shaft, means to cause said pinion to turn half a revolution and be prevented from turning further while traveling parallel to said slots.

2. In a device of the class described, a shaft movable in slots, a stamp mounted on said shaft, a pinion carried by said shaft, means to cause said pinion to turn half a revolution and travel parallel to said slots, the extremities of travel of said-pinion being free from turning movement.

3. In a device of the class described, in combination, a device for distributing bookend papers, a device for stamping said papers, and connections between said devices to cause said papers to be stamped before they are distributed, said connections comprising a rack and pinion whereby said stamp is caused to alternately contact with an inking device and a book-end paper.

4:- In a device of the class described, a stamp, means for turning said stamp substantially 180 degrees, means to cause said stamp to move in a direction perpendicular to its face at the end of its turning movement, and a book-end paper distributer connected to automatically operate said stamp: as said distributer operates.

5. In a device of the class described, a

stamp, means for turning said stamp a pre determined distance, and means to cause said stamp to move in a direction perpendicular to its face at the end of its turning movement, said latter. means comprising a rack and pinion.

7.1a a device of the class described, a tamp, a rack and pinion for turning said 7 stamp, said rack having a smooth surface along which 'a stop on said pinion slides :at the end ofthe turning movement.

8. In a device of the class described, a shaft'movable in slots, a stamp mounted on said shaft, a pinion carried by said shaft, a rack provided with teeth and a smooth surface adjacent said teeth, and a p I stop on said pinion to engage the smooth surface on said pinion.

9. In a device of the class described, in

combination, means for distributing bookend papers, means for stamping said papers, and connection between said means to cause said papers to be stamped before they are distributed, said connections comprising a rack having a smooth surface adjacent its teeth and a pinion having a stop to engage said smooth surface, whereby said stamp is caused to alternately contact perpendicularly with an inking device and an article to be stamped. a

10. In combination, a traveling inking device, an oscillating stamp which contacts alternately with said-inking device and an article to be stamped, means comprising a rack and pinion for oscillating said stamp, said means being connected to said device to cause it to travel as said means oscillates. c c

11. In combination, an oscillating stamp, a traveling inking device, said device comprising rollers and an endless belt which passes over said rollers, one of said rollers dipping into an ink receptacle, said belt passing around said. roller and ink receptacle, and driving connections between said oscillating stamp and another one of said rollers. i

In testimony whereof I afiix mLy signature.

- A BERNARD E INE. 

